Bitter Differences: Bipartisanship in a Democratic Congress

Today a new Congress will be sworn in, with the Democrats now holding the majority in both houses. Will this Congress be able to work with the Bush Administration? The first day of the new Congress will be filled with so much bipartisanship that it will make even John McCain sick to his moderate stomach. But from there on out there will be an all out assault on the Bush Administration, and rightly so.

The president published an editorial in the Wall Street Journal yesterday essentially bowing to the Democrats wishes, or in other words trying to appease the beast that wants to destroy him. He called for more attention on small businesses and the “regular” consumer. He also asked for the line-item veto, which would have to be approved by Congress. Is “W” wacked out of his gore? What in the hell happened to him supporting multi-national corporations and their massive conglomerates? “W” evidently changed his policy over night in a feeble attempt to keep the new Congress off of his ass so that he can conduct his personal war in Iraq.

The Democrats swept the midterms because they have an agenda that the nation feels is proper for the times and if there is no bipartisanship, well so be it then. The GOP has been using war like tactics since 1994 and frankly it is time that they receive a taste of their own medicine. I am sure that the Democrats will not buy the president’s last minute changes to his policy, as “W” has a tendency to shift his policy views every 5 minutes, especially in the domestic arena.

Two border patrol agents who shot a Mexican drug smuggler are set to begin their prison sentences in the coming days. Are you kidding me? Is that not the goal of even having the border patrol in the first place, to stop the illegal flow of drugs into this country? Over fifty-five members of Congress have signed a letter aimed at persuading the president to grant these two men a pardon. Yet those Congressmen and other various insiders calling for the pardon have been shunned by the White House. I guess that it is now acceptable to allow illegal aliens and those supporting the “drug industry” in America to come on over whenever they feel like it. This is the most ass backwards domestic strategy to date by the Bush Administration.

There is a huge controversy brewing across the Atlantic over the cell phone video that was recorded during Saddam Hussein’s execution. The Iraqi government (majority Shiite) is “looking into it,” but I highly doubt anything of substantial reckoning will come out of it. Saddam, who was a Sunni, was heckled by the Shiites who were charged with executing him before the actual event took place, which is evidently wrong. I am not an Iraqi, but was not he the one who killed thousands upon thousands of Shiites during his time in “office?” I believe that those present had every right to blast the man, as he deserved it as much as he deserved to be executed. That video helped to heal the wounds of many who experienced his wrath first hand.

Finally, Pat Robertson, a prominent evangelical has predicted through his “conversations with God” that there will be an event of cataclysmic proportions sometime at the end of 2007. The “700 Club” host believes that millions in the U.S. will be affected in a massive terror attack. This coming from a man who said that the U.S. was going to be hit by a tsunami in 2006, that Ariel Sharon was stricken by a stroke because he ceded lands to Palestine, and that the president would find a solution to the social security problem in 2005.

A prophet by definition is someone who is right 100 % of the time, not occassionally. I am a religious person and I believe that prophets do exist, but not this lunatic. If I said something catastrophic was going to happen to the US at the end of 2007, I would be in jail right now; no shit. This man simply wants attention so that he can further his agenda on his little TV show, plain and simple.